ABSTRACT
Britain in the middle of the first century BC was still in its political infancy, by comparison with central Mediterranean countries, and even with Gaul. Indeed, it had mainly come about by a succession of migrations of north Gaulish tribesmen to Britain, so that, at first, a degree of kinship, and even a limited political control, existed between communities on both sides of the Channel. During Julius Caesar campaigns in Gaul between 57 and 56 BC, Caesar was quick to learn of the affinities between Britons and Gauls, which yielded both military aid and a place of refuge for the latter in their resistance to Caesar's advances, as when the Armoricans of modern Brittany and Normandy, who had surrendered to Caesar in 57 BC, revolted in the following year. The German invasion was nevertheless contained and countered by a short Roman campaign over the Rhine.
